Community activists are demanding answers from Cincinnati police for discharging a Taser device at a young man last week amid tensions between students from Hughes High School and local businesses in Clifton Heights

A mobile-phone video that begins after the Taser discharge shows a black teenage boy on the ground with a Cincinnati officer handcuffing him. The video has been viewed more than 30,000 times on social media but by Monday had been removed.

City Councilwoman Tamaya Dennard sounded a call to her Facebook audience last week asking for more information about the incident. Iris Roley, a local businesswoman and police reform activist, said she also wants to know what happened.

“I am very angry at the lack of response from the city,” Roley said. “Black children's lives matter as well. I am angry over the lack of response from the mayor, the City Council and the police department.”

A police statement said an investigation is underway. Officer Michael Smith, who deployed the Taser weapon, “has been temporarily assigned to administrative duties," according to the statement.

The Enquirer has requested body-camera video and other documents about the incident from Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati police. The Cincinnati police statement said the video would not be released while the investigation is continuing.

The incident appears to involve more than one group of students hanging out at businesses in the busy 200 block of West McMillan Street. Nearby, Hughes High towers above the intersection of Calhoun Street and Clifton Avenue, across from the UC main campus.

At about 4 p.m. April 18, the owner of Duttonhoffer Books asked a group of five teenage girls to stop loitering on the bookstore’s entryway on West McMillan Street. Kim Steinseik said Hughes students frequently block the store's entrance. In the past, when she has asked Hughes for help, school officials suggested she call police directly. The school’s resource officer, Steinseik said, was not available April 18 to help her.

When Steinseik left the store to go home, she said the group of girls threatened to beat her or to have a parent come to the store and beat her. Steinseik then called police.

Moments later, as Steinseik drove away, she saw police cars flying past her heading to the business strip on McMillan.

The police statement about the incident said police found five juveniles outside the Bana Market, next to the bookstore, and ordered them to stop. One teenager, a boy, “refused to cooperate with the officer’s instructions and was placed into custody. A short time later a second juvenile became disorderly and fled on foot.”

Smith “attempted to deploy his Taser on the juvenile that fled on foot, but the Taser did not take effect,” the statement said. “Officer Smith took the juvenile to the ground and placed him into custody without further incident.”

Dennard said "she has confirmed that the boy was tased at least once."

"There are two prongs that are supposed to hit people," she said in a text to The Enquirer. "He was hit with one."

As Smith arrested the second boy, a crowd gathered and people apparently called out that the boy was only 13. Others pulled out mobile phones to take video of the scene.

One juvenile was charged with obstructing official business and the second juvenile was charged with obstructing official business, resisting arrest and littering. No further details were available Monday about the cases.